Hi All,
Fedora 25 has now been branched, please be sure to do a git pull
--rebase to pick up the new branch, as an additional reminder
rawhide/f26 has been completely isolated from previous releases, so
this means that anything you do for f25 you also have to do in the
master branch and do a build there. There will be a Fedora 25 compose
ASAP and it'll appear
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/25/ once
complete. Please be sure to check it out.
Release Engineering

Greetings!
Today, on 2016-July-26, we have reached Fedora 25 Change Checkpoint:
Completion deadline (testable) [1].
At this point, all accepted changes [2] should be substantially
complete, and testable. Additionally, if a change is to be enabled by
default, it must be enabled at Change Completion deadline as well.
Change tracking bug should be set to the MODIFIED state to indicate it
achieved completeness.
Incomplete and non testable Changes will be reported to FESCo for
2016-July-29 meeting. Contingency plan for System Wide Changes, if
planned for Alpha (or in case of serious doubts regarding Change
completion), will be activated.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/ChangeSet
[3] http://red.ht/2a7rQJG
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

Greetings, all!
The elections for Council - July 2016 have concluded, and the results
are shown below.
Council is electing 1 seat this time.
A total of 189 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate
could accumulate up to 378 votes (189 * 2).
The results for the elections are as follows:
# votes | name
- --------+----------------------
240 | Langdon White (langdon)
- --------+----------------------
228 | Justin Flory (jflory7)
Congratulations to the winning candidates, and thank you all
candidates for running this elections!
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

As this Change is already implemented in rawhide, this announcement is
done mostly for "record only" purpose to increase awareness about the
changes it implements.
= Proposed Self Contained Change: Node.js 6.x =
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NodeJS6x
Change owner(s):
* Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh AT redhat DOT com>
Fedora 25 will be updated to Node.js 6.x, the latest LTS release of
the platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building
fast, scalable network applications.
== Detailed Description ==
Node.js has seen many changes between v4.x and v6.x. [There is a
listing of changes documented on the wiki for [5.x and 6.x Note that
this release includes API updates that may require dependency updates.
Upstream maintains an exhaustive list of interesting changes here.
These are just some of the changes you can find in this release of
v5.x, and it's thanks to the hard work of the community and the
members of team curating Node.js.
Node.js 6.x will be under active development until October 2016, at
which time it will enter its long-term stable release, which will be
maintained actively through April 2018 (after the expected release of
Fedora 27) and for security issues for another year after that.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
- Update nodejs
- Rebuild all binary modules, apply patches as necessary
* Other developers:
- Other Node.js packagers' attention may be required if the update
causes issues for their packages.
* Release engineering: N/A
* Policies and guidelines:
- No expected changes
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
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Jan Kuřík
Platform & Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic

The Campaign period of Elections for the Fedora Council and Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) are now over. As of this morning,
voting is now open.
== Candidate Interviews ==
There is one seat open on the Fedora Council (contested by two
candidates) and four seats open on FESCo (contested by five candidates).
Most candidates have published their platforms and answered questions
from the official Questionnaire form on the Community Blog.
For your convenience, you can read this post, which lists all of the
candidates and links to their interview (if applicable).
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/2016-july-elections-interviews/
Please take a moment to review the post as you prepare to vote.
== Eligibility ==
Both the Fedora Council and FESCo have different eligibility requirements.
* Fedora Council: Requires Fedora account (FAS), signed the CLA agreement
* FESCo: Requires Fedora account, signed the CLA agreement, member of
one other "non-CLA" group in FAS
Voting takes place in the Elections application:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/
== Voting ends: 2016 July 25, 23:59 UTC ==
Voting ends promptly on Monday, July 25, 2016, at 23:59 UTC. Voting will
then close and candidates will be announced thereafter.
For more information about the voting process, you can review the wiki
page for Fedora Elections.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
Best of luck to all candidates running! For all voters, make sure you do
get your vote in and participate in helping elect members of Fedora's
leadership bodies.
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)fedoraproject.org

Greetings.
As noted recently, Fedora Infrastructure has had a large number of spam
accounts and edits over the last few months. Our Basset application[1]
has been great at detecting the accounts and spam and blocking or
deleting them. However, this process has caused some confusion as spam
wiki edits appear and are deleted. In addition, the results aren't
accurate enough to avoid Infrastructure or other teams having to do
additional cleanup manually, which isn't sustainable long-term.
In order to prevent these spam wiki edits entirely, we have changed the
wiki to require a user to have both signed the FPCA and be in at least
one additional group (CLA+1). This may require some workflow changes
for a few groups such as Fedora Ambassadors. New contributors without
any group membership will need a path to membership without wiki edits.
Sorry for any inconvience this may cause, but the wiki should be a
quieter and cleaner place for this change.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to open a
Fedora Infrastructure ticket[2] or discuss with the team in our IRC
channel #fedora-admin.
Thank you.
[1] https://pagure.io/basset
[2] https://fedorahosteosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/